CMU Neural Nets for NLP 2017 (1): Class Introduction & Why Neural Nets?

This lecture (by Graham Neubig) for CMU CS 11-747, Neural Networks for NLP (Fall 2017) covers: * Introduction to Neural Networks * Example Tasks and Their Difficulties * What Neural Nets can Do To Help Slides: http://phontron.com/class/nn4nlp2017/assets/slides/nn4nlp-01-intro.pdf Code Examples: https://github.com/neubig/nn4nlp2017-code/tree/master/01-intro Next Video: (2) Neural Language Models: